Which with bland words at will she thus addrest. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton

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But he was greatly beloved--my bland and bountiful grandfather. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various

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The least touch of belligerent fire came into Starbottle's eye, but his bland courtesy did not change. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various

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There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville

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Then came calmer days--the conviction of deep love settled upon our lives--as after the hurrying, heaving days of spring, comes the bland and benignant summer. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various

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But the spermaceti itself, how bland and creamy that is like the transparent, half-jellied, white meat of a cocoanut in the third month of its growth, yet far too rich to supply a substitute for butter. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville

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You sit quietly on the top of a hill and away the stone goes, starting others and presently some bland old bird the last you would have thought of is knocked on the head in his own back-garden and the family have to change their name. - from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson